Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Alexandre Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a French-British character actor, who has appeared in over 300 film, television, and stage productions in a career spanning six decades. Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, to a British mother (Vernon) and a father of Bulgarian descent (Dobtcheff). He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the Doctor Who story The War Games in 1969. In his 2006 memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to Paris, and reveals his extraordinary reputation as the "patron saint" of the acting profession, stating that Dobtcheff "was legendary not so much for his acting as for his magical ability to catch every first night in the country". Widely travelled and prone to pop up in the most unlikely of locales, if unable to attend an opening night, Dobtcheff will still endeavour to send the cast a card wishing the production good luck. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vernon Dobtcheff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: 14 August 1934
Played In
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
The Scientist (archive footage)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
The Gold
Matteo Constantino
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Burning Casablanca
Corny
The Haunting of Margam Castle
Enos
The Witcher
Older Elf
The Violet Hour
M. Audran
The Romanoffs
M. Audran
L'hypothèse de la reine rouge
Sherlock Holmes
The Man with the Iron Heart
Emile Hacha
Emerald City
High Born Man
The Durrells
Mr. Kralefsky
Killing Jesus
Isaiah
The Invisible Boy
Artiglio
Horsehead
George
Seven Lucky Gods
Lawrence
The Great Beauty
Arturo
Another Woman's Life
Dimitri Speranski
Zarafa
Le vieux sage (voice)
The Passage
Vieil homme
The Borgias
Cardinal Versucci
Undisputed III: Redemption
Rezo
Godforsaken
The Surgeon
Changing Climates, Changing Times
Lucas
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Anatole Deschanel
The Joy of Singing
Le lecteur du bar
Apparitions
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Self
La Légende des 3 clefs
The anthropologist Gilles Clément
Priceless
Jacques
Courts mais Gay : Tome 12
Anthony
For the Time Being
Anthony
Surviving Disaster
An American Haunting
Elder #1
Empire of the Wolves
Kudseyi
Before Sunset
Bookstore Manager
Evilenko
Bagdasarov
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Riccio
Thank You, Doctor Rey
François
Brocéliande
Brennos
The Red Siren
Vitali
The Falklands Play
Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)
David Copperfield
Quinion
Festival in Cannes
Millie's Escort
The Order
Oscar
The Body
Monsignor
Revelation
Curé at Rennes-le-Chateau
Largo Winch
Maurice de Beliveau
Largo Winch
David Copperfield
Quinion
Le Prof
Patte Folle
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Cleisthenes
Falling Through
Father
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Italian Doctor
Relic Hunter
Anthony Cureton
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Art Gallery Lecturer
Hilary and Jackie
Professor Bentley
Jinnah
Lord Willingdon
30 Years to Life
Sandler
Highlander: The Raven
Count Van Der Meer
Vigo
Papa Lozinska
Spanish Fly
Carl's Friend
Merlin
1st Physician
Déjà Vu
Konstantine
The Wonderland Experience
Vincent
St. Ives
Bonnefoy
Anna Karenina
Pestov
The Hunchback
Father Michel
The Ice Princess
Chancellor
The Ogre
Lawyer
Surviving Picasso
Diaghilev
Catherine the Great
Naryshkin
Jude
Curator
Le fils de Paul
Duval
Sharpe's Sword
Don Felipe
Father Ted
Old Nazi
Jefferson in Paris
King's Translator
The House that Mary Bought
Mademoiselle O
Rouka
Frankenstein
Chancellor
M. Butterfly
Agent Etancelin
The Hour of the Pig
Apothecary
Temptation of Sainthood
Freud
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Un Héraut / Un prêtre / Un clerc
Highlander: The Series
Carlo Luchesi
Highlander: The Series
Hamad
Obiettivo indiscreto
Primo editore
Venice/Venice
Alexander
Sweetheart
Thurson
The First Circle
Riyumin
As Time Goes By
Dr. Stoker
The Strauss Dynasty
Hirsch
Let Him Have It
Clerk of Court
Hamlet
Reynaldo
Vincent and Me
Dr Winkler
Meridian
Priest
The Garden
Old Man at Sauna
The Krays
Teacher
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Fellgiebel
Flight from Paradise
Merrill
The Hostage of Europe
Hudson Lowe
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Butler
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Jules Glaenzer
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Doctor Webber
Natalia
Alfred Grabner
Splendor
Berlin-Jerusalem
Editor
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simeon Lee
The Sweet House of Horrors
The Exorcist
War and Remembrance
Henri Bulle
Testimony
Gargolovsky
Pascali's Island
Pariente
Catacombs
Brother Timothy
Le due croci
Bischof de Jong
Maigret
Gannett
Fortunes of War
Prince Hadjimoscos
Crossbow
The Name of the Rose
Hugh of Newcastle
Caravaggio
Art Lover
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Sebastiani
Tender Is the Night
Luis Campion
Mata Hari
Prosecutor
A.D.
Flavius Sabinus
Morenga
Lohmann
Much Ado About Nothing
Don John
L'Homme de Suez
Konya, Turkish Colonel, spy in the service of the English
Sherlock Holmes
Mendelstam
Gwendoline
Shirko
Night Patrol
James
The Devil's Lieutenant
Dr. Goldschmiedt
Mon Ami Washington
An Englishman Abroad
Guildenstern
Dramarama
Mr. Rolyat
The Scarlet and the Black
Count Langenthal
Nutcracker
Markovitch
Marco Polo
Pietro De Abano
Enigma
Minister
That Night of Varennes
Judge at the confiscation
Troilus & Cressida
Agamemnon
L'Amour nu
John, le patron de Claire
Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten
M. Bernard
Sredni Vashtar
Dr. Russell
Condorman
Russian Agent
Le Beau Monde
Pablo
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Un tueur russe
Private Schulz
Sturmer
Peter and Paul
High Priest of Herod
Masada
Chief Priest
Nijinsky
Sergei Grigoriev
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Ike
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Mazarin
Pimentel
Romeo and Juliet
Apothecary
Question of Love
Peter
Last In, First Out
Le réceptionniste
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lamberti
Holocaust
Karp
Blake's 7
The Chairman
The Roads of Exile
Le peintre Ramsay
1990
March or Die
Mean Corporal
The Spy Who Loved Me
Max Kalba
Joseph Andrews
Fop Two
The Achurch Letters
Eugene
Dickens of London
Legal Gentleman
Police Commissioner Moulin
Astman
Killers
Clerk of the Assizes
French Without Tears
Monsieur Maingot
Michael Strogoff
Blount
Rumpole of the Bailey
Edward Gandolphini
Rumpole of the Bailey
Magnus Piecan
Lovers Like Us
Coleman
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Dr. Canard
Operation: Daybreak
Pyotr
The Messiah
Samuel
The Secret Agent
Karl Yundt
Cat and Mouse
Germain's accomplice
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Reinders
India Song
Georges Crawn
Playing with Fire
A messenger
The Sweeney
Harry Kretchmar
Churchill's People
De Reynes
Scent of a Woman
Don Carlo (uncredited)
Murder on the Orient Express
Concierge
À vous de jouer Milord
N° 2
Father Brown
Simon Vesty
The Marseille Contract
Lazar
Fall of Eagles
Count Stookau
Playhouse
Eugene
Cartesius
Astronomo Ciprus
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Padre
Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
Proshnik
Impossible Object
Private Investigator
The Day of the Jackal
Interrogator
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
An Echo of Theresa
Bannerheim
The Edwardians
Benjamin Disraeli
Crown Court
John Maitland-Wilson
The Protectors
Joe Flynn
Van der Valk
Sebastian Jonge
The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin
Up the Front
Muller
Far from Dallas
New Scotland Yard
Jacob Harmann
Mary, Queen of Scots
Duc De Guise
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Lazovert
Fiddler on the Roof
Russian Official
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Molbech
The Horsemen
Zam Hajji
The Beast in the Cellar
Newsmith
The Married Couple of the Year Two
le pasteur
Them
Brisbane
Play for Today
Ace of Wands
Sandor Zandar
Darling Lili
Otto Kraus
Codename
Herman Voss
Anne of the Thousand Days
Mendoza
Doctor Who: The War Games
Chief Scientist
Baby Love
Man in Cinema
The Assassination Bureau
Baron Muntzof
Beach Head
N.G. Waldron
The Champions
Manager
The Name of the Game
Dedushko
A Dandy in Aspic
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
Msgr. de Gondy
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
The Three Musketeers
Commissary
Breaking Point
Mystery and Imagination
Dr Lutz
The World of George Orwell: 1984
Goldstein
BBC Play of the Month
Monsieur Maingot
The Mask of Janus
Colonel Valenkov
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Carpenter
Out of the Unknown
N.G. Waldron
Darling
Art Critic at Ralph Riggs Exposure (uncredited)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Member of the French Team
The World of Wooster
Music Store Assistant
The Debussy Film
The Actor
Theatre 625
Priest
Theatre 625
Emmanuel Goldstein
The Life of Galileo
Philosopher
Martin Chuzzlewit
Doctor Who
Scientist
Festival
Philosopher
Espionage
Captain of Police
The Saint
Vogel
The Scales of Justice
Mr. Strang
The Avengers
Spencer
The Avengers
Stenson
Dixon of Dock Green
Counsel for Defence
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